Hi Jessica! Could it be that your pages might be corrupted! If you have access to another account on your Mac and it has Pages on it [or set one up] see if pages runs ok on there! Or you could trash that pages and reinstall [ might help] I think there is in the archive something about sorting out corrupted accounts! hth Colin On 16 Sep 2011, at 08:11, Jessica and Goldina wrote:
> Rachel and Eugenia, > > thanks so much for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I have not gotten either > of them to work. > > for the sake of my homework I ended up just opening a new document and > retyping it from the original document so I was able to hand it in. thank > goodness it wasn't a very long assignment so it wasn't a big deal. But this > is happening with all pages documents. > > After I finished with my homework I did a little experiment. I opened a new > pages document, typed something in it and quit pages. when I tried to open > it, it opened fine but again, I couldn't type in it or delete anything from > it. when I tried to select all and copy and paste, it would select all but I > couldn't copy. that's why I couldn't take Rachel's suggestion of copying and > pasting into text edit. it selects all but won't let me copy. the quicknav > keys are turned off. I even turned voiceover off thinking it might be a VO > issue but it did the same thing with voiceover off. just clunked at me when I > tried to type in the document. > > It's as if the documents are locked but they aren't. when I get info on the > files, it says I have permission to read and write. yesterday when I first > noticed this happening I tried repairing my permissions and it didn't fix. > > I tried Eugenia's suggestion of renaming the backup and deleting the original > but it did the same thing with the renamed backup. I opened it up and > couldn't manipulate the text in the document. > > I'm getting a bit worried cuz I have a research paper for one of my classes > that I wanna start working on soon. I don't wanna be fighting with pages when > it comes down to doing serious writing. that just sounds too…PC-esque. > > it seems like it's some kind of weird permissions issue. when I do the same > thing with text edit, it works fine. I'm able to open a new document in text > edit, write in it, close it and write in it again with no problems. it's just > pages. > > > peace and positivity > Jessica and Goldina > follow me on Twitter: > http://www.twitter.com/canadian_diva > > On 2011-09-15, at 5:36 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> Hi Jessica and Goldina >> I had this happen to me, and I wrote Apple about it. In my case, I had a >> backup file that was label by the computer as backup. I deleted the original >> (with the idea that I could get it out of trash if I had to. Then I renamed >> the backup file by taking out the word backup and leaving in the original >> name, thus giving me a file with the same name as the one I just deleted. >> When I did this, it worked like a charm. All my data was there, too. >> >> Regards, >> Gigi >> >> On Sep 14, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Jessica and Goldina wrote: >> >>> Jessica and Goldina >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.